Cynthia A. Golembeski

New School · Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy

The U.S. criminal legal system contributes to the oppression and harm of marginalized groups, calling into question ethical governance. The front end of this system, specifically bail and pretrial justice, exploits opportunities for resource generation and social control as a major driver of incarceration, yet receives limited attention in public a...

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy is critical reading for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars interested in governance, political economy, ethics, equity, and the origins and influence of the ‘economic style of reasoning’ on federal policymaking and corresponding values and priorities. Elizabet...

This article examined the factors associated with thoughts of ending life in a sample of incarcerated men. Data were obtained from the Cancer Risk in Incarcerated Men Study, a pilot study designed to examine cancer health disparities and cancer health education in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of male smokers in three state prisons in the no...

Centering administration in U.S. jails and prisons as a case study, we review diverse literature and undertake a conceptual analysis of balancing politics and administration as a constitutional principle, which establishes guidance and legitimacy for exercising administrative discretion. This legal framework for administrative decision-making, thro...

Upon its publication in 2007, Robert Greifinger’s first edition of Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities became an invaluable resource for correctional and community health and medicine administrators, policymakers, educators, practitioners, scientists, and researchers alike. This ‘‘textbook for a class that didn’t exist,’’ accordi...

Cynthia Golembeski Anti-Defamation League Encyclopedia of Race and Crime Editors. Helen Taylor Greene & Shaun L. Gabbidon 2009 Access Date: March 30, 2020 SAGE Publications, Inc. Print ISBN: 9781412950855 Online ISBN: 9781412971928 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412971928.n6 Print pages: 13-15

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy is critical reading for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars interested in governance, political economy, ethics, equity, and the origins and influence of the ‘economic style of reasoning’ on federal policymaking and corresponding values and priorities. Elizabet...

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy is critical reading for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars interested in governance, political economy, ethics, equity, and the origins and influence of the ‘economic style of reasoning’ on federal policymaking and corresponding values and priorities. Elizabet...

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy is critical reading for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars interested in governance, political economy, ethics, equity, and the origins and influence of the ‘economic style of reasoning’ on federal policymaking and corresponding values and priorities. Elizabet...

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened and exposed existing health vulnerabilities and the race and class disproportionalities associated with health, economic, and social resource access. COVID-19 has revealed the depths to which inequities are entrenched in our everyday lives and local, national, and global structures. Negative health effects and h...

The targeted use of standardized outcome measures (SOMs) of mental health in research with older adults who are incarcerated promotes a common language that enables interdisciplinary dialogue, contributes to the identification of disparities and supports data harmonization and subsequent synthesis. This paper aims to provide researchers with ration...

Misinformation amplified by political elites can lead to an increase in racism and discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities and other populations who experience vulnerabilities. Politically-motivated misinformation, as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, can have far-ranging public health consequences, including negative physical and...

Public administration scholars have interrogated ethical governance and accountability in association with federal oversight amidst notorious crises and disasters (e.g., the 1990s financial crisis; the Challenger disaster; Hurricane Katrina; Abu Ghraib; and the Flint, Michigan water crisis) (see Balfour et al., 2014; Khademian, 2011; Lewis, 2010; R...

The United States has approximately 5 percent of the world's population but incarcerates nearly 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population and produces nearly 25 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions to date. Climate change and hyperincarceration are causes and consequences of structural racism and economic deprivation, which disproport...

Misinformation amplified by political elites can lead to an increase in racism and discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities and other populations who experience vulnerabilities. Politically-motivated misinformation, as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, can have far-ranging public health consequences, including negative physical and...

Bipartisan governmental representatives and the public support investment in health care, housing, education, and nutrition programs, plus resources for people leaving prison and jail (Halpin, 2018; Johnson & Beletsky, 2020; USCCR, 2019). The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 banned people with felony drug conv...

Public management research often precludes more meaningful understanding of criminal-justice involved men and women within the contexts of policy cycles and citizen-state interactions, which include frontline corrections and healthcare staff. Moynihan posits that uncovering the construction, nature, and impacts of administrative burdens, including...

The United States has approximately 5% of the world’s population but incarcerates nearly 25% of the world’s incarcerated population and produces nearly 25% of global carbon dioxide emissions to date. Climate change and hyperincarceration are causes and consequences of structural racism and economic deprivation, which disproportionately affect lower...

Foundations promote causes and support policy reform. Philanthropic support has enabled research and policy institutes to increase awareness of the effects of mass incarceration within the U.S. Bushouse and Mosley (2018) suggest the role of philanthropic foundations in the policy process is largely hidden and thus, poorly conceptualized. Limited wo...

Bipartisan governmental representatives and the U.S. public overwhelmingly support investment in economic security, including healthcare, housing, education, and nutrition programs, plus resources for people leaving prison and jail. One component of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PROWRA) was a lifetime ban on people with...

More than 1,000,000 women in the U.S. are currently under supervision of the criminal legal system (CLS). Since 1980, the number of women in prison has increased by over 800%. CLS involvement increases risk of physical and sexual violence, with direct or indirect health and health care effects, which impact families and communities. These risks are...

We analyze panel data examining state-level firearm preemption laws in 50 states. States have long had the capacity and authority to preempt local ordinances. Earlier state preemption efforts targeted gun and smoking regulations in response to local public health advocacy throughout the 1980s and 1990s (Pomeranz et al. 2017; Briffault 2018). Nearly...

Our analysis relies on a comprehensive dataset of 19 years of state preemption activity related to workers’ rights across 15 labor policy subjects. What is the association between less diverse state-level governments and state preemption of local workers’ rights? Are republican controlled state-level governments more likely to adopt preemption meas...

Main Streets are civic/commercial centers of neighborhoods. They are also nodes in regional networks of streets, which together create a net of connection referred to here as the ‘tangle.’ This tangle serves as a physical substrate for community interconnection and its expression as collective efficacy. We examine two regions hit by disaster. We po...

In Life and Death in Rikers Island, Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer for New York City’s jails, performs a social autopsy of the “inaccessible island colony of nine jails on Rikers Island” and reveals the “deadly and long-lasting health risks of jail” (p. ix). Three decades of mass incarceration in the United States coincide with a s...

Compelling evidence suggests the conditions of incarceration lead to poor health outcomes because of, for example, poor nutrition and diet, elevated risks of sexual assault or other violence, and the mental health repercussions of both crowding and prolonged isolation. Issues of dual loyalty on the part of health care providers, confidentiality, ab...

The combination of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and Rutgers University in 2013 is the largest higher education merger in U.S. history. Based on extensive interviews with participants and archival research, we analyze factors that accelerated or decelerated the integration of the two universities over the period 201...

The major universities offering health sciences education in New Jersey were restructured in a 2012 legislative act. The plan evolved from a limited transfer of one medical school to a complete integration of two large entities. We describe how this evolution occurred and how leaders of the combined organization implemented the plan, especially con...

The goal of Fortune Society’s Reentry Education Project (REP) is to help healthcare providers integrate culturally competent best practices into the HIV prevention, treatment and care, which they deliver to patients who are justice-involved and formerly incarcerated. Guided by input from public health experts, those affected by crime and incarcerat...

Purpose: There is a need for research to facilitate the widespread implementation, dissemination and sustained utilization of evidence-based primary care screening, monitoring and care coordination guidelines, thereby increasing the impact of dental hygienists' actions on patients' oral and general health. The aims of this formative study are to e...

Objectives. We explored the interrelationships among diabetes, hypertension, and missing teeth among underserved racial/ethnic minority elders. Methods. Self-reported sociodemographic characteristics and information about health and health care were provided by community-dwelling ElderSmile participants, aged 50 years and older, who took part in c...

Introduction: The goal of this project was to develop a web-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) for screening and care coordination by dental hygienists at chairside for four general health issues (diabetes, hypertension, tobacco use and nutrition counseling) to improve patient health. Methods: We modified a smoking cessation CDSS desig...

Objectives: The objectives are: (1) to explore the interrelationships among diabetes, hypertension, and missing teeth among underserved racial/ethnic minority elders; and (2) to assess whether or not an ordinal logit model that utilizes ordered response categories for missing teeth is more informative and interpretable, as compared to a binary logi...

Research Aims:(1) To assess dental hygienists’ and dentists’ perspectives and experiences regarding current scope of practice and the integration of primary care activities with routine dental care; and (2) to assess the needs of hygienists and the office environment around primary care screening at chairside. Methods:This exploratory qualitative...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) seriously compromises the short- and long-term health and well-being of women who experience it, of those who perpetrate it, and of children who witness it. Although violence against women has gained increasing recognition as a human rights issue, IPV often remains hidden, stigmatized, underrecognized, and underrepor...

As trusted leaders, the message you send has a huge impact on your communities and on our country. You can use your voice-and your expertise-as public health leaders to educate your families, friends and patients about what is really at stake… . I'd encourage you to move outside the public health world to galvanize other leaders in your community-f...

Aim: To explore the role of gendered norms and expectations regarding the nature and dynamics of coercive and violent behavior within young Latino adult heterosexual relationships, whereby men and women experience violence as perpetrator, victim or both. Methods: 254 heterosexual, Latino 18-24 year old adults were screened with questionnaires. 37...

The largest non-Middle Eastern oil- exporting countries include Venezuela, Nigeria, Indonesia, Libya, Algeria, Ecuador and Gabon. New technologies and rising prices have increased the volume of offshore oil extraction, resulting in areas such as the Gulf of Guinea off Africa emerging as a major global hydrocarbon supplier. However, Bergesen and Hau...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an advocacy organization established in New York in 1913 to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience, and if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people; to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens; and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule...

Anti-Defamation League, originally Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, advocacy organization established in Chicago in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry and discrimination. Its activities include assessing hate crimes and anti-Semitism in various countries, assisting law-enforcement agencies in investigating and prosecuting...

The American system of prisons and prisoners-described by its critics as the prison-industrial complex-has grown rapidly since 1970. Increasingly punitive sentencing guidelines and the privatization of prison-related industries and services account for much of this growth. Those who enter and leave this system are increasingly Black or Latino, poor...

The purpose of this paper was to examine the geographic distribution of New York City adults aged 65 and older by race/ethnicity and poverty status. Also analyzed was seniors' access to dental care as defined by the location of dental providers and their proximity to the subway system lines in Manhattan and the Bronx. ArcGIS software was used to cr...

Health disparities that affect whole communities may involve factors like housing quality that lie at least partly within planners' realm of policy influence. This article demonstrates a link between housing and childhood asthma. The magnitude of the childhood asthma epidemic in Harlem in New York City and the commitment of engaged community partne...

The American system of prisons and prisoners—described by its critics as the prison–industrial complex—has grown rapidly since 1970. Increasingly punitive sentencing guidelines and the privatization of prison-related industries and services account for much of this growth. Those who enter and leave this system are increasingly Black or Latino, poor...

Since 1980, asthma prevalence, hospitalization, and mortality have been increasing in the United States (1). Because of concern about asthma-related morbidity among children in Central Harlem, New York City (NYC), the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative (HCZAI) was established in 2001 to reduce asthma-related morbidity through improved surveil...